Bartizan
A bartizan (an alteration of bratticing), also called a guerite, garita, or échauguette, or spelled bartisan, is an overhanging, wall-mounted turret projecting from the walls of late medieval and early-modern fortifications from the early 14th century up to the 18th century.[1] Most frequently found at corners, they protected a warder and enabled him to see his surroundings. Bartizans generally are furnished with oillets or arrow slits.[2] The turret was usually supported by stepped masonry corbels and could be round, polygonal or square.[3]
Bartizans were incorporated into many notable examples of Scottish Baronial architecture. In the architecture of Aberdeen, the new Town House, built in 1868–74, incorporates bartizans in the West Tower.
Gallery[edit]
At walls[edit]
Guarita at Fortaleza de Santiago, Sesimbra Municipality, Portugal.
Garita at El Cañuelo in the Bay of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
South-East Bartizan on Greenknowe Tower, Scottish Borders (and another one in the background)
Bartizan at Fort de Chartres, a French colonial era fort in Illinois on the Mississippi River.
Garita at Castillo San Cristóbal (San Juan) in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
At towers[edit]
Manueline Guaritas at Belém Tower in Lisbon, Portugal.
Bartizans at Feartagar Castle, Ireland.
The Peace Palace bell tower, The Hague, Netherlands
Martinstor, Freiburg, Germany
See also[edit]
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- Bretèche
- Garret—an attic or top floor room in the military sense; a watchtower from the French word garite
References[edit]
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- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Bartizan". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
- ^ public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bartizan". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 450. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Bradley, Simon, ed. (2010). Pevsner's Architectural Glossary. Yale University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-300-16721-4.